The outcomes of interventional treatment for Budd-Chiari syndrome: systematic review and meta-analysis.

The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review with meta-analysis quantitatively assesses the outcomes of interventional treatment for Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS). We evaluated the published studies on interventional treatment for BCS and reviewed reference lists from retrieved articles. Meta-analysis was applied to calculate the combined rates and their 95% confidence intervals. The risk of bias was assessed by the Egger test. As many as 29 articles on interventional treatment with BCS were selected according to the eligibility criteria and included in the meta-analysis, for a total of 2,255 BCS patients. The pooled results (95 % CI) were 93.7 % (92.6-4.8 %) for successful rate of interventional operation, 6.5 % (5.3-7.7 %) for restenosis rate of interventional treatment, and 92.0 % (89.8-94.3 %) and 76.4 % (72.5-80.4 %) for the survival rate at 1 and 5 years, respectively. The interventional therapy of major BCS patients is safe with successful operation, good patency, and long-term survival. Moreover, a step-wise management of BCS is proposed to manage and cure all BCS patients with personalized treatment.